RIP Mick Jagger: Rolling Stone death hoax hits Twitter

The phrase
‘RIP Mick Jagger’ has been trending heavily on
Twitter today as the latest celebrity death hoax raises gasps, followed by chuckles, across the web.

Mick Jagger: He’s not dead, he just looks like he is (according to some Twitter users)

Google Trends, the search giant’s compilation of topics that are buzzing throughout cyber space at any given moment, was also seized by Jagger fever as false rumours about the big-lipped one’s demise spread.

‘RIP Mick Jagger ? No, no, no. He’s not dead. He just looks like he is,’ was the oft-retweeted refrain popping up on Twitter.

‘Just because there’s more meat on a chariot’s whip than on Mick Jagger, doesn’t mean he’s dead. RIP Twitter Sanity,’ was another post.

‘RIP Mick Jagger? Surely a better rumour would be “Keith Richards, alive”,’ is another of our current Stone-themed retweets of choice, as is: ‘RIP Mick Jagger? Mick Jagger is immortal. Idiots.’

The 67-year-old Rolling Stones frontman, who rolled out his trademark energetic strut for the Grammy Awards at the weekend, now joins the likes of Canadian popstrel Justin Bieber , big-screen beefcake Russell Crowe and friend-to-porn-stars-everywhere Charlie Sheen in the Twitter Death Hoax Hall Of Fame.